This is why most people will NOT merge data into their data files.
If one is to look at Page 234 of the book and then step 4 at the bottom of the page. It states “merges those that have EXACTLY the same information.” Since there was something different in these marriages information a duplicated was made. Aren’t these lovey new tools just GREAT. Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- <http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com> http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == From: Kathy Meyer [mailto:kmeyer2...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 7:20 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] duplicate marriages I posted this before and didn't get any responses, so I'll try again :-) Somehow during a merge (Intellimerge) I ended up with every single marriage related to the merged file duplicated. Male #1 is married to Female #2 twice; the 2nd marriage is separate and does not link to the children of the 1st marriage, which I am grateful for. So as I've tried to figure this out on my own, I have found the quickest way to remove these marriages is to go to the marriage list and go down the list one by one, visually noting the duplicates, highlighting the bogus marriage (it has a much higher RIN) and then making the 3 or 4 clicks to unlink each marriage. This has been very time consuming but at least it's better than trying to browse through the file or having to be in family view to remove each link. I would like to be able to see a list of these duplicate marriages that may still exist so I can see where I am on it and what needs to be done and ones I've overlooked. Is there a way to create such a list? I browsed through the search criteria for marriages but it didn't seem to fit. I haven't done a lot of searches though and definitely nothing this specific. Thanks to anyone who can help! If it can't be done, I hope a legacy moderator will at least just tell me that I simply have to continue going one by one through the marriage list. At least then I'd know :-) Kathy Meyer Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
